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Show SCENE The ZZ WARD TAKES THE ASCAP CAFE STAGE, C-5 www.parkrecord.com Park Record. Editor: Scott Iwasaki arts@parkrecord.com 435.649.9014 ex.15713 MUSIC SHOWCASE MAKES CHANGES, C-2 C-1 WED/THURS/FRI, JANUARY 29-31, 2020 Sundance Film Festival panel explores how ‘Just Art’ can spur cultural change SLAMDANCE FILM FESTIVAL Slamdance Film Festival will run through Thursday, Jan. 30, at Treasure Mountain Inn, 255 Main St. For information, visit slamdance.com. THE 2020 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL The 2020 Sundance Film Festival will run through Sunday, Feb. 2, at various venues in Park City, Salt Lake City and the Sundance Resort. For information, visit sundance.org. PRESCHOOL STORY TIME AT THE PARK CITY LIBRARY A preschool story time will be held from 10-11 a.m. every Thursday at the Park City Library, 1255 Park Ave. The free session is designed for children ages 3 to 6. They will build language skills and enjoy stories, songs and crafts. For information, visit parkcitylibrary.org. TANZI PROPST/PARK RECORD From left: actor and producer Kerry Washington and playwright and composer Lin-Manuel Miranda listen as director and playwright Julie Taymor responds to a question about how art can be used to educate and spur sociopolitical change during Sundance Film Festival’s Power of Story “Just Art” panel on Saturday at the Egyptian Theatre. LET’S PLAY LEGOS AT THE SUMMIT COUNTY LIBRARY Kids can drop in and play with Legos and Duplos for free from 1-3 p.m. every Friday at the Summit County Library Kimball Junction Branch, 1885 W. Ute Blvd. For information, visit thesummitcountylibrary. org. Participants examine representation, truth and appropriation SCOTT IWASAKI The Park Record CLIMBING WALL AT THE SWANER ECOCENTER The Swaner EcoCenter, 1258 Center Drive, at Kimball Junction, offers climbing on Saturdays and Sundays from 1-3 p.m. The climbing wall is open to most ages. The EcoCenter will provide the climbing harness, but climbers must wear closedtoe shoes. Climbers under 18 years of age must be accompanied by an adult to sign a liability waiver. The cost is $5 per climber or free for Swaner EcoCenter members. For information, email swanerecocenter@ usu.edu or call 435-649-1767. Partway through the Sundance Film Festival’s Power of Story panel discussion “Just Art” Saturday afternoon at the Egyptian Theatre, Lin-Manuel Miranda broke into the rap, “96,000,” from his musical and upcoming film adaptation, “In The Heights.” The piece, which Miranda wrote with Quiara Alegria Hudes in 2005, looks at immigration, racism and investing in protests. And he said he didn’t think the lyrics were really political at that time. “But you could write that now,” he said as the audience, which included Hillary Clinton, burst into applause. This was one of the many highlights of the panel, moderated by multimedia artist and photographer Carrie Mae Weems, and which included filmmaker and activist Ai Weiwei, actor and producer Kerry Washington and playwright Julie Taymor. For more than an hour, Weems and the panelists discussed how art can be used to educate and spur sociopolitical change. Miranda, known for creating and playing the lead role in the Tony-winning musical “Hamilton,” said he didn’t make “In the Heights,” which is set in the mostly Hispanic New York neighborhood of Washington Heights, to be a political work. “To me it was a sequel to ‘Fiddler on the Roof,’” he said. “(It was about) if your parents come from the Dominican Republic, and mine from Puerto Rico and hers from Mexico and hers from Cuba, what are the traditions that we bring with us and what do we pass down to our children if we all live in Manhattan Island?” Miranda said the idea for “In the Heights” emerged from his love of musical theater and his father Luis, an advocate for Puerto Rico, and subject of one of this year’s Sundance Film Festival documentaries, “Siemper Luis,” by John James. “I loved ‘West Side Story,’ but never danced well enough to be Bernardo, and then in my senior year in high school, Paul Simon’s ‘The Capeman’ came out, which was also about a Latino/Puerto Rican gang in the 1950s,” Miranda said. “I remember thinking this was a very overrepresented group on Broadway, so when I was a sophomore in college, my dare to myself was ‘can we have a musical about us where we are not holding a knife and dancing?’” Weiwei said his approach to making his Sundance documentary “Vivos” was to tell the truth. My dare to myself was ‘can we have a musical about us where we are not holding a knife and dancing...’” Lin-Manuel Miranda, playwright and composer “There is not much profound ideas behind my films,” he said. “I try to be honest, which is not easy. It is difficult to be honest, because we are all not so honest and we all know it.” “Vivos” recounts the 2014 disappearance of 43 students from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers’ College, who were abducted by Mexican police forces and masked kidnappers. GOT THE SUNDANCE SCARIES ? Want to Beat mAIN sT MADNESS ? WE'VE GOT YOU COVERED . Sundance Film Festival When: Through Feb. 2 Where: Park City, Salt Lake City, Sundance Resort Web: Sundance.org/festival In the aftermath, the Mexican government said the incident was carried out by dirty cops, but Weiwei has his doubts about the explanation, and decided to focus his films on the families that were left behind. “They are really fighting for justice, but justice may never arrive,” Weiwei said. “It’s been my experience in this world that justice doesn’t really arrive in many cases. We pretend we are living in a society where fairness and justice is commonly being talked about. (But) if you really deeply look at it, it is all questionable.” Truth is also a topic that is close to Washington’s heart. She is at Sundance with a documentary called “The Fight,” which is about the American Civil Liberties Union. Washington, who teamed with Josh Kriegman and Elyse Steinberg, the duo behind “Weiner,” the 2016 documentary about Anthony Weiner’s campaign for New York Mayor, gained unprecedented access to the ACLU for three years to make “The Fight.” Please see Panelists, C-4 www.bwrestaurants.com 1250 IRON HORSE DR 6030 N MARKET ST 1571 w Redstone Center Dr 8208 GORGOZA PINES RD |